The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14

is the first appointment made by the Com
mission.
THE EAST.
Senator Daly's bill appropriating $550;O00
for the Improvement Of the canals of New
York became a law on the 5th without the
Governors signature.
w. A. Clark, who robbed the registered
mail at New York Of $4,000 package re-
Gently, and is on bail, has disappeared from
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, and can not
be found.
A bill has passed the Massachusetts,
House by q vote of two to one limiting the
number Of licenses which may be granted
in any one place to one for every 500 people.
As Boston now has one saloon to every 1853
people it will reduce the number of saloons
in that city by over two-thirds. There are
now about z, 800 saloons there. Under the
new law which, 1t is said, will pass the
Senate, there will be about 700.
Francis g. Fairchild, clergyman and
journalist, author Of work on Spiritualism
and veterinary surgery, died at his board
ing house in New York on the 5th from the
effects of the opium habit. While ON his
deathbed his wife, Josephine, died from the
same cause. She was daughter Of Judge
Griswold Of the United States District
Court and sister in-law Of Bret Harte.
The Metropolitan Association Of Fire Un-
derwriters Of New York was dissolved on
the 5th by the withdrawal Of the Williams
burg company. The association embraced
about one hundred and sixty companies do
lug business in New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City.
An explosion Of molten metal in the Ed
gar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa,
on the 5th terribly burned six men. Two Of
the victims, ]. r. Callahan and John Ready,
can not recover.
On the 9th the fund for the proposed
Beecher monument had reached %, 6s2.
The body Of Nicholas Bowers, who was
drowned in the Shenango river food JAN
uary u, was found at Sharon, Pa, on the
9th by John Duffy, furnace laborer, who
will receive reward Of 500. Bowers was
insured for several Thousand dollars and
the finding Of the body was necessary be-
fore his widow could secure the amount.
The will of Mary B. Pelton, sister Of the
bate at New York on the 9th. The testa-
trix bequeaths all her property to her
granddaughter, Laura A. Pelton, wife of
William A. Hazard.
Henry Bowen & Son, manufacturing
chemists Of Philadelphia, failed on the 9th.
Liabilities estimated at s5OO, 600; assets not
known.
The bill providing for an elevated railroad
IN Philadelphia was practically killed in the
Pennsylvania House on the 9th, motion
to take it up out Of its order being defeated
by vote Of 138 to 80.
The Connecticut House on the 9th, by q
vote Of 80 to SO, passed the weekly payment
bill The measure having previously passed
the Senate is now a law.
Hon. Francis Childs, for thirty years q
mann of the Arm of Cbilde q T.oipo
CARPET dealers OF Boston, Mass, died on the
9th aged sixty-eight years.
The Lochiel Iron Company's furnace and
Furnace No. 2 Of the Paxon Iron Works, at
Harrisburg, Pa, have shut down, and it is
said that the Cressonia Nail Works will also
cease operations on account of freight rate
charges resulting from the Interstate
Commerce law. This throws $50 men out Of
work.
Lowry, pastor Of Browns A. M. E. Chapel
was in the midst Of his discourse few
nights ago, rife ball, evidently aimed al
Mr.. Lowry's head, crashed through a win.
dow at the side Of the pulpit, passed but an
inch or so from his head and imbedded it.
self in the opposite wall.
Tho printing establishment of Wright &
Potter, State printers, at Boston, Mass.
burned on the 9th, causing loss to the
firm Of SO, 900; fully insured. Other occu
pants of the building sustained losses ag
gregating $4,000.
Nearly complete returns from the Rhode
Island election show that the Democrats
elect tho Governor, Attorney General and
Treasurer. John W. Davis, for Governor
has 973 majority. The majority against the
women's suffrage amendment is over 15, 600
There was no election for Lieutenant Gov.
ernor or Secretary Of State. In five cases
there were no elections for Senators.
The Cunard line steamer Pavonia, which
recently sailed from Queenstown for Bos
ton, on the 7th collided with and sunk
fishing smack of Cape Clear. Two of the
occupants Of the smack were drowned.
At New York, on the 7th Peter Murray
and Daniel Afford, two laborers who were
at work on new building on Broadway
N. Y, fell from the seventh story to the
ground and were killed instantly.
The New Jersey Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 7th, after defeating the Higl
Liccnse bill.
Conn, which was wrecked by the Barthol
omew and Plunkett defalcations, and whicl
have been running under q receiver, tn
dyers and weavers struck on the 7th for
ten per cent. advance in wages. The re
ceiver ordered that the mill be shut down
and $50 people are idle.
Charles Jones, the policeman who sho
and killed his wife at an italian ball il
Pittsburgh recently, was convicted on tn
Sth Of voluntary manslaughter. The pei
atty is fine and twelve years. imprison
ment in the penitentiary.
A man gave himself up to the Brookly
On. " police on the 7th on his own state
ment that he was the murderer of the III
known dead girl at Railway, N. J. Hi
name is J. J. Flath. He is q barber and
stranger in Brooklyn.
]. II. Raff1n, who was shot by ex-Ministe
Langston's son Frank, died at Petersburg
Va, on the 7th. Langston will be tried fc
murder in the first degree which, in VII
ginia, is a capital offense.
John Killeen's stables at New Libert.
Scott County, Ia, were burned on the I'll
Thirty-seven blooded horses were d
stroyed, causing a loss Of $4,000. No il
surance.
Commodore Charles Green, United Stat,
Navy, retired, died at Providence, R. l., {
tho 7th, aged seventy-three years.
A large forest fire was raging on the n
In the valuable timber lands west of tt
Oldiield lighthouse, near Port Jefferson,
l. A large tract has been burned over, i
volving u heavy loss.
General Thomas W, Conway, secretary